Summer Sale!

From now until the end of July we will be having an in-store sale on our merchandise! Savings up to 50% off on specially marked items! Some of our sales include:

-All candles are 25% off or buy one, get one free.
-All pottery and jewelry are 25% off.
-Jonathan Adler Christmas Ornaments are 50%.
-Specially marked furniture pieces are 50%.

The store will run on our normal hours of operation:

Monday & Tuesday: By Appointment
Wednesday-Friday: 10am-5pm
Saturday: By Appointment or By Chance
Sunday: Closed

*The store will be closed Saturday, July 23rd*

Featured In: Renovation Style - Summer 2011 Issue!

We are so excited and thankful to be featured in the Summer 2011 issue of Better Homes and Garden! Our article includes twelve pages of one of our recent client's fabulous home transformation located in Darien, Connecticut. Located below are some sneak peeks of the issue, but make sure to pick up a copy to check out the full article!

Ice Cream Social June 9th

Please join us on June 9th from 5-9 during the Downtown Milford Business Association's 2nd Thursday event for a special Ice Cream Social to benefit the Get In Touch Foundation. Scoops of ice cream from Walnut Beach Creamery will be served for $2.00 with all proceeds going to the charity. We will also be serving pink champagne in our store that evening. We hope you can stop by and support this great organization.

IDA Award Winner

We are very excited to be the recipients of the third place award for Kitchen Design in the Connecticut Cottages & Gardens magazine's IDA design competition. We were honored to be among such amazing designers and architects who entered the competition. Congratulations to all the other winners! You will see this beautiful kitchen featured in the July issue.

IDA Awards Finalist

We are very excited to be among the finalists for the Connecticut Cottages and Gardens Innovation in Design Awards in the kitchen category. We can't wait to see the competition and are looking forward to a fabulous night out at the awards ceremony on May 24th. Design Icon Bunny Williams will be honored that evening and we hope we get an opportunity to meet her as well.

Easter Weekend Hours

Shelter Interiors will be closed for the entire Easter weekend on April 23rd & 24th. We wish you and your families a hoppy holiday!

Featured Artist: Kim Romero

Shelter Interiors is very happy to have works of art by Westport resident Kim Romero featured in our store this season. Kim's work has added a touch of Spring to our store and we are thrilled to be offering her work to you.

Biography:

Drawing from thirty years of wide-ranging experience in interior design, garden design and food presentation, Kim Romero's natural attraction for the relationships between colors is not surprising. A former student of interior design and previous owner of a catering company, painting has become her logical new focus and discovered talent. For the last couple of years, she has studied at The Silvermine Art Center in New Canaan, CT.

In 2010, her work was represented in Ecclectic Essex, a gallery in Essex, CT, promoting emerging Connecticut artists. Circa Antiques in Westport, CT, carries a small assortment of Kim's paintings and she has been commissioned by private clients in Westport, as well as Vermont, Louisville, KY and Victoria, BC.

Kim paints from her home in Westport, CT. She has lived in town since 1989, with her husband Tom, and has raised twin daughters who are now in college.

Artist Statement:

I have an affinity to make my surroundings pleasing to the eye. My paintings grow out of a visual personal experience, evoking interest and passion that takes me on a journey using paint on canvas. I want to create something for my viewer to be drawn in to. My goal is to not just make their eyes see, but to taste and smell the colors and textures. I feel as if a piece of art should arouse a feeling of intrigue and calm; it should be a complete and absolute moment.

I start by using a large brush and lots of paint. I use colors I feel will tell my story of that moment, applying them all messy and thick or thin and watery. There are shapes that take on the structure and bones at this point. This process gets all the emotion out on the canvas. With each brush stroke or palette knife and with colors taking their places on the canvas next to each other, the painting goes through a transformation, ending where and when I feel an emotional connection and contentment.

Inspired by what I thought may merely be an interesting creative diversion, I first delved into painting as an art form after deciding to take classes near my home in Westport, CT. While the classes helped lay the foundation in terms of basic techniques, I quickly was able to distinguish my attraction to abstract work in acrylics and have been exploring the field ever since.